Father,
You have blessed us
with many, many good gifts. One cherished gift among them is Your Word. How
precious is this revelation of who You are and what You do. Because we
understand something of the glories of Your Word, we join in the psalmist's
prayer.
Open
my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Father, we know that
there are wondrous things in Your Word, things that amaze and cause us to
marvel at You.
It is from Your Word
that we have learned how, by merely speaking, You created all that we see and
more. There was nothing and then there was everything.
It is from Your word
that we have learned how, by a great flood, You undid, to such a great extent,
that same creation, grieving as You did that, because You could no longer
stomach the evil of those who inhabited Your world.
It is from Your Word
that we have learned how You sent a Savior to the same world that You had
condemned, a world that was still populated by so many who give themselves to
evil.
And it is from Your
Word that we have learned that Your Spirit has taken the work of that Savior
and applied it to us so that we could be rescued from the evil that we once
gave ourselves to.
Father, there are
more wondrous things in Your Word that we have not yet learned. And so, with
the psalmist, we ask that You would open our eyes. Our sin blinds us to truths
about who You are and what You do, things that would amaze us. Open our eyes so
that we will see more of the wonder of who You are in the pages of Your Word
and then, as a result, in the world around us. We ask for this not simply to
experience some ecstatic feeling of surprise. No, we ask for this so that,
getting to see more clearly the kind of God that You are, we would worship You
more fully. Based on what little we now know, we do worship You as the great
God that You are. But how much greater will our worship be as You reveal from
Your Word more of the wonder of who You are.
Father, we look
forward to the age to come when, in ways that we now cannot imagine, every day
will be filled with more amazement because every day we will see You so much
more clearly.
But there is time
between then and now. And so, we ask, even while we inhabit this age, that You
would continue to open our eyes to more so that as we grow in our understanding
of the Word, we will grow in our worship of You. Through Christ our Lord, Amen..